Kamoy often employed the Red Delicious Apple in her paintings as an icon to facilitate conversations around the commoditization of identity. Over its history, the Red Delicious apple fell victim to breeding that prioritized durability and uniformity of physical appearance over its taste. This resulted in ostensibly identical and lucrative – but ill-tasting – apples. The apple’s plight serves as a reminder of the risk of sacrificing the true, authentic self in favor of a self that is fabricated by external norms and expectations.

Several of her pieces in this series feature the “applehead”, an androgynous figure whose head has been replaced by a Red Delicious apple. The applehead figure serves as an ambassador for this conversation around identity.